WEBVTT CRYSTAL: DETECTIVE KIEL PEPPERHAD JUST ARRIVED AT WORK WHEN HERESPONDED TO A CRASH AT THISINTERSECTION.TURNS OUT THE PERSON WHO WASMOST CRITICALLY INJURED WAS ANOKLAHOMA COUNTY SHERIFF'SDEPUTY. IT WAS AN EARLY DECEMBERMORNING.RESERVE DEPUTY LARRY BUTLER WASOFF DUTY DRIVING NEAR THEINTERSECTION OF NORTHWEST 39THAND ROCKWELL WHEN HE WAS T-BONEDBY ANOTHER CAR. >> THAT SPUN HIM INTO SOME OTHERCARS.CRYSTAL: DETECTIVE KIEL PEPPERWITH THE BETHANY POLICEDEPARTMENT WAS THE FIRST TORESPOND TO THE SCENE, WHERE HEFOUND DEPUTY BUTLER CRITICALLYINJURED. >> HE WAS BLEEDING FROM HISHEAD, FROM HIS MOUTH.BY THE TIME I HAD GOTTEN THEDOOR OPEN, AND HE FELL INTO MYARMS, HE WASN'T BREATHING ANYMORE.CRYSTAL: HE PULLED HIM OUT OFTHE CAR TO DO CHESTCOMPRESSIONS. >> I ROLLED HIM ONTO HIS LEFTSIDE, THE RECOVERY SIDE.HE TOOK A BIG GASP AND ACTUALLYSTARTED BREATHING A LITTLE BIT.CRYSTAL: PARAMEDICS RUSHED HIMTO THE HOSPITAL, AND TODAY HE ISSTILL RECOVERING. BUT AUTHORITIES SAY IT WAS THEHEROIC ACTIONS OF DETECTIVEPEPPER THAT SAVED DEPUTYBUTLER'S LIFE. >> JUST TO BE ABLE TO HELPANOTHER POLICE OFFICER AND MAYBEGIVE THEM ANOTHER CHANCE ATLIFE, ESPECIALLY AFTERHORRIBLE ACCIDENT, ITS BEEN ANAWESOME FEELING JUST TO KNOWTHAT MAYBE SOMETHING I DID GAVETHEM A SHOT.CRYSTAL: IN BETHANY, CRYSTAL

An Oklahoma County reserve deputy is recovering from critical injuries from a car accident. A police officer who stepped in to save his life opened up for the first time to talk about the crash.
Detective Kiel Pepper had just arrived at work when he responded to a crash, in which the person who was most critically injured was an Oklahoma County sheriff's deputy.
Reserve Deputy Larry Butler was off duty driving near the intersection of Northwest 39th and Rockwell when he was T-boned by another car.
Pepper, who works with the Bethany Police Department, was the first to respond to the scene, where he found Butler critically injured.
“He was bleeding from his head, from his mouth,” said Pepper. “By the time I had gotten the door open, he fell into my arms. He wasn't breathing anymore."
Pepper pulled Butler out of the car to do chest compressions.
“I rolled him onto his left side, the recovery side. He took a big gasp and actually started breathing a little bit,” Pepper said.
Paramedics took him to the hospital. Authorities said Pepper’s heroic actions saved Butler's life.
“Just to be able to help another police officer and maybe give them another chance at life especially after a horrible accident, it’s been an awesome feeling just to know that maybe something I did gave them a shot,” Pepper said.

OKLAHOMA CITY —

An Oklahoma County reserve deputy is recovering from critical injuries from a car accident. A police officer who stepped in to save his life opened up for the first time to talk about the crash.

Detective Kiel Pepper had just arrived at work when he responded to a crash, in which the person who was most critically injured was an Oklahoma County sheriff's deputy.

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Reserve Deputy Larry Butler was off duty driving near the intersection of Northwest 39th and Rockwell when he was T-boned by another car.

Pepper, who works with the Bethany Police Department, was the first to respond to the scene, where he found Butler critically injured.

“He was bleeding from his head, from his mouth,” said Pepper. “By the time I had gotten the door open, he fell into my arms. He wasn't breathing anymore."

Pepper pulled Butler out of the car to do chest compressions.

“I rolled him onto his left side, the recovery side. He took a big gasp and actually started breathing a little bit,” Pepper said.

Paramedics took him to the hospital. Authorities said Pepper’s heroic actions saved Butler's life.

“Just to be able to help another police officer and maybe give them another chance at life especially after a horrible accident, it’s been an awesome feeling just to know that maybe something I did gave them a shot,” Pepper said.